‘I don’t know if we’re ready’: Governors from each party appalled at 100-year-old federal workforce strategy

On Wednesday, some of the most prominent names in American education and workforce policy gathered in Washington to deliver a blunt message: the United States is failing its workers, its students, and its economy — and the window to fix it is closing fast.

The Bipartisan Policy Center, a group of bipartisan national and state policymakers, business leaders, and education experts, released a sweeping report produced by a 24-member commission that spent more than a year examining the country’s broken education and workforce pipeline.